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SUMMARY:Mechanisms of motor learning and how to modulate it in health and 
 disease
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Leonardo G. Cohen\, NINDS\, National Institutes of Heal
 th\, USA.\nRecent years have seen significant progress in our understandin
 g of the neural substrates of motor skill learning. Advances in neuroimagi
 ng provide new insight into functional reorganization associated with the 
 acquisition\, consolidation\, and retention of motor skills.  Advances in
  our understanding of stages of motor skill learning and the ability to mo
 dify previously consolidated memories allow the design of new intervention
 s based on insights into the behavioral mechanisms of human neuroplasticit
 y.  Such neuroplastic changes can be further modulated by behavioral stra
 tegies like reward\, interventional approaches like transcranial magnetic 
 (TMS) or direct current (tDCS) stimulation and drugs.  Translation to the
  clinical arena advances at a pace consistent to our understanding of the 
 mechanisms by which stimulation protocols influence brain function.\n\nBio
 :\nThe focus of my research has been neuroplasticity associated with learn
 ing and translational neurorehabilitation. My expertise lies in the use of
  neuroimaging and brain stimulation to understand mechanisms of neuroplast
 icity and in developing novel interventional approaches to facilitate reco
 very of function after brain lesions and with crossmodal plasticity in the
  blind. The HCPS configuration is designed to include fellows and students
  with expertise in the fields of cognitive neurology\, functional magnetic
  resonance imaging (fMRI)\, diffusion weighted imaging (DWI)\, positron em
 ission tomography (PET)\, and stroke. Students and fellows interact\, help
 ing and participating in each other’s studies in a multidisciplinary and
  collaborative way. A vast majority of HCPS graduates are independent inve
 stigators and clinician scientists in academia. Several hold Chair positio
 ns in Neurology and PMNR in Germany (4)\, France (1)\, Corea (1) and the U
 S (1). As part of an active network of intramural and extramural collabora
 tors we have been able to develop research with clinical impact like brain
 -computer interface and brain stimulation in neurorehabilitation of motor 
 function after stroke and understanding of motor learning stages and cross
 modal plasticity in health and disease. A weekly Stroke Neurorehabilitatio
 n Clinic is successfully fulfilling the recruitment needs of our chronic s
 troke protocols. I participate in peer reviewed activities as permanent an
 d ad-hoc member of NIH study sections and as a member of the editorial boa
 rds of Journal of Neuroscience and Journal of Neurophysiology. I recently 
 received the Barbro B Johansson award from the “World Stroke Congress”
  (2014)\, and the “Dr. Aaron I. Grollman Visiting Professorship” of th
 e Graduate Program in Life Sciences at the University of Maryland and the 
 keynote speaker invitation for the Robarts Research Annual Retreat\, the l
 ast two nominated and voted by students and postdoctoral fellows (2016). 
 In the last three years\, one HCPS graduate became Chair of PMNR at Johns 
 Hopkins University (Dr Celnik).
LOCATION:Campus Biotech H8 Auditorium http://cnp.epfl.ch/files/content/sit
 es/cnp/files/Seminars/PlanSallesCampusBiotechH8-01.pdf
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